FIFA’s Qatar World Cup Investigation Is A Total Mess

Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images See Also Hours after FIFA released a summary of its years-long investigation into the bidding process for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, lead investigator and former U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said the organization whitewashed his findings. FIFA ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert released of the report where he cleared Qatar of any major corruption violations during the World Cup bidding process in 2010. Garcia, whose full report was controversially kept secret by FIFA, immediately issued a statement saying Eckert’s summary misrepresented the conclusions in his report. “Today’s decision by the Chairman of the Adjudicatory Chamber contains numerous materially…